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Clerical celibacy

Book Review: The basic question: How will the church bring the word, the liturgy and charity to the people of God? If the answer is ordaining women as deacons, these works together present an understanding that the church could return to its tradition without troubling any teaching about priesthood.

Anyone committed to the protection of children should carefully study the report by the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. But not the recommendations to the Catholic Church on celibacy and sacramental confession.

Fr. Greg Greiten was halfway through his homily, during which he shared that he is a gay, celibate priest, when a woman rose from her pew and shouted, “God bless you, Father!” The rest of the congregation at St. Bernadette Parish, where Greiten is pastor, responded with applause.